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crĕpĭtus , ūs, m. crepo,
I.a rattling, creaking, clattering, clashing, rustling, a noise, etc. (in good prose).
I. In gen.: “cardinum,” Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 1; cf. “claustrorum (with sonitus),” id. ib. 1, 3, 47: “carbasi,” Lucr. 6, 110: “e motu frenorum,” Varr. R. R. 2, 7, 12: “dentium,” a chattering, Cic. Tusc. 4, 8, 19: “pedum,” id. Top. 12, 52: “armorum,” Liv. 25, 6, 21; 38, 17, 5: alarum (anserum). id. 5, 47, 4: “plagarum,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 162: “inlisae manus umeris,” Sen. Ep. 56, 1: “tibiarum et scabellorum,” Suet. Calig. 54: “arboris,” Plin. 10, 18, 20, § 40: “imbrium,” a pattering, id. 12, 1, 5, § 10: “sonitus, tonitrus,” a crash, Plaut. Am. 5, 1, 10: digitorum, a snapping of the fingers, as the signal of a command (cf. crepo and concrepo), Mart. 14, 119.—
II. In partic.: crepitus (sc. ventris), a breaking wind with noise, = πορδή (diff. from flatus, without noise), Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 16; Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 5: Sen. Ep. 91, 19; Plin. 27, 12, 87, § 110 al.; “with flatus,” Suet. Claud. 32.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (19):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 9.22.5
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.162
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 5.1
    • Plautus, Curculio, 1.3
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 54
    • Suetonius, Divus Claudius, 32
    • Plautus, Curculio, 2.3
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 6.110
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 10.40
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 12.10
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 27.110
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 25, 6
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 5, 47.4
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 38, 17
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 4.8
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 56.1
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 91.19
    • Martial, Epigrammata, 14.119
    • Cicero, Topica, 12.52
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